The Optics Of Giambattista Della Porta Ca 1535 1615 A Reassessment

Author : Arianna Borrelli,Giora Hon,Yaakov Zik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319502151

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The Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535–1615): A Reassessment by Arianna Borrelli,Giora Hon,Yaakov Zik Pdf

This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and technology of early modern optics. Della Porta's groundbreaking book, Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic), includes a prototype of the camera. Yet, because of his obsession with magic, Della Porta's scientific achievements are often forgotten. As the contributors argue, his work inspired such great minds as Johanes Kepler and Francis Bacon. After reading this book, researchers, historians, and students will have a better appreciation of this influential scientist. They will also gain a greater understanding of an important period in the history of optics. Readers will learn about Della Porta's experimental method, a process governed by the protocols, aims, and theoretical assumptions of natural magic. Coverage also discusses the material properties and limitations of optical technology in the early 17th century, based on a recently discovered Dutch spyglass. It also demonstrates how diagrams were instrumental in the discovery of the sine law of refraction. In addition, the book includes an in-depth analysis of previously untranslated Latin sources. This makes the material useful to historians of optics unfamiliar with the language. More than 70 illustrations complement the text.

Author : Arianna Borrelli,Giora Hon,Yaakov Zik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 3319502166

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The Optics of Giambattista Della Porta (ca. 1535-1615) by Arianna Borrelli,Giora Hon,Yaakov Zik Pdf

Author : Lakshminarayan Hazra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781498744959

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Foundations of Optical System Analysis and Design by Lakshminarayan Hazra Pdf

Since the incorporation of scientific approach in tackling problems of optical instrumentation, analysis and design of optical systems constitute a core area of optical engineering. A large number of software with varying level of scope and applicability is currently available to facilitate the task. However, possession of an optical design software, per se, is no guarantee for arriving at correct or optimal solutions. The validity and/or optimality of the solutions depend to a large extent on proper formulation of the problem, which calls for correct application of principles and theories of optical engineering. On a different note, development of proper experimental setups for investigations in the burgeoning field of optics and photonics calls for a good understanding of these principles and theories. With this backdrop in view, this book presents a holistic treatment of topics like paraxial analysis, aberration theory, Hamiltonian optics, ray-optical and wave-optical theories of image formation, Fourier optics, structural design, lens design optimization, global optimization etc. Proper stress is given on exposition of the foundations. The proposed book is designed to provide adequate material for ‘self-learning’ the subject. For practitioners in related fields, this book is a handy reference. Foundations of Optical System Analysis and Synthesis provides A holistic approach to lens system analysis and design with stress on foundations Basic knowledge of ray and wave optics for tackling problems of instrumental optics Proper explanation of approximations made at different stages Sufficient illustrations for facilitation of understanding Techniques for reducing the role of heuristics and empiricism in optical/lens design A sourcebook on chronological development of related topics across the globe This book is composed as a reference book for graduate students, researchers, faculty, scientists and technologists in R & D centres and industry, in pursuance of their understanding of related topics and concepts during problem solving in the broad areas of optical, electro-optical and photonic system analysis and design.

Author : Donato Verardi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350357174

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Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe by Donato Verardi Pdf

Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy. Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe. Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging the crucial role that concepts like magic and illusion played in Aristotle's time.

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319141695

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Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy by Marco Sgarbi Pdf

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Philosophy, French
ISBN : 9780198796909

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The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism by Steven Nadler Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography (including his background, intellectual contexts, writings, and correspondence) and philosophy, with chapters on his epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics. The chapters of the second part are devoted to the defense, development and modification of Descartes's ideas by later generations of Cartesian philosophers in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and elsewhere. The third and final part considers the opposition to Cartesian philosophy by other philosophers, as well as by civil, ecclesiastic, and academic authorities. This handbook provides an extensive overview of Cartesianism - its doctrines, its legacies and its fortunes - in the period based on the latest research.

Author : Ferdinand Kühnel,Nedžad Kuč,Marija Wakounig
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643912237

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Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond by Ferdinand Kühnel,Nedžad Kuč,Marija Wakounig Pdf

During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.

Author : Lorin J. Elias
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781459747579

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Side Effects by Lorin J. Elias Pdf

Understanding how right-brain and left-brain differences influence our habits, thoughts, and actions. Human behaviour is lopsided. When cradling a newborn child, most of us cradle the infant to the left. When posing for a portrait, we tend to put our left cheek forward. When kissing a lover, we usually tilt our head to the right. Why is our behaviour so lopsided and what does this teach us about our brains? How have humans instinctively used this information to make our images more attractive and impactful? Can knowing how left-brain right-brain differences shape our opinions, tendencies, and attitudes help us make better choices in art, architecture, advertising, or even athletics? Side Effects delves into how lateral biases in our brains influence everyday behaviour and how being aware of these biases can be to our advantage.

Author : David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108420303

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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution by David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu Pdf

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Author : Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen,Peter Chapman,Leonie Bosveld-de Smet,Valeria Giardino,James Corter,Sven Linker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030542498

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen,Peter Chapman,Leonie Bosveld-de Smet,Valeria Giardino,James Corter,Sven Linker Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2020, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in August 2020.* The 20 full papers and 16 short papers presented together with 18 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: diagrams in mathematics; diagram design, principles, and classification; reasoning with diagrams; Euler and Venn diagrams; empirical studies and cognition; logic and diagrams; and posters. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters ‘Modality and Uncertainty in Data Visualization: A Corpus Approach to the Use of Connecting Lines,’ ‘On Effects of Changing Multi-Attribute Table Design on Decision Making: An Eye Tracking Study,’ ‘Truth Graph: A Novel Method for Minimizing Boolean Algebra Expressions by Using Graphs,’ ‘The DNA Framework of Visualization’ and ‘Visualizing Curricula’ are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Vera Keller
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421445939

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The Interlopers by Vera Keller Pdf

A reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early modern world. Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining their own behavior. According to these views, scientists such as Francis Bacon produced certain knowledge by pacifying their emotions and concentrating on method. In The Interlopers, Vera Keller rejects this emphasis on discipline and instead argues that what distinguished early modernity was a navigation away from restraint and toward the violent blending of knowledge from across society and around the globe. Keller follows early seventeenth-century English "projectors" as they traversed the world, pursuing outrageous entrepreneurial schemes along the way. These interlopers were developing a different culture of knowledge, one that aimed to take advantage of the disorder created by the rise of science and technological advances. They sought to deploy the first submarine in the Indian Ocean, raise silkworms in Virginia, and establish the English slave trade. These projectors developed a culture of extreme risk-taking, uniting global capitalism with martial values of violent conquest. They saw the world as a riskscape of empty spaces, disposable people, and unlimited resources. By analyzing the disasters—as well as a few successes—of the interlopers she studies, Keller offers a new interpretation of the nature of early modern knowledge itself. While many influential accounts of the period characterize European modernity as a disciplining or civilizing process, The Interlopers argues that early modernity instead entailed a great undisciplining that entangled capitalism, colonialism, and science.

Author : D.R. Kelley,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401132381

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The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment by D.R. Kelley,R.H. Popkin Pdf

The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004352643

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Bernardino Telesio and the Natural Sciences in the Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the entwinement of science and philosophy in the conceptions of the Renaissance thinker Bernardino Telesio. His vistas are considered from an interdisciplinary perspective bringing together the histories of philosophy, physics, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, and psychology.

Author : Giambattista Della Approximat Porta,Richard Active 1650-1680 Gaywood,Thomas Active 1658 Young
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014788684

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Natural Magick by Giambattista Della Approximat Porta,Richard Active 1650-1680 Gaywood,Thomas Active 1658 Young Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Danilo Capecchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319583105

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The Path to Post-Galilean Epistemology by Danilo Capecchi Pdf

This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with the emergence of mechanistic philosophy, the new mixed mathematics, and the establishment of the experimental approach. It is argued that modern European science originated from Hellenistic mathematics not so much because of rediscovery of the latter but rather because its “applied” components, namely mechanics, optics, harmonics, and astronomy, and their methodologies continued to be transmitted throughout the Middle Ages without serious interruption. Furthermore, it is proposed that these “applied” components played a role in their entirety; thus, for example, “new” mechanics derived not only from “old” mechanics but also from harmonics, optics, and astronomy. Unlike other texts on the subject, the role of mathematicians is stressed over that of philosophers of nature and the focus is particularly on epistemological aspects. In exploring Galilean and post-Galilean epistemology, attention is paid to the contributions of Galileo’s disciples and also the impact of his enemies. The book will appeal to both historians of science and scientists.